Getting it out of the way, I am a linux noob who is learning, but I still suck. Flamethrowers off.

I've installed Jaunty on my much-needed HTPC, installed nvidia drivers, and it works fine. I put in my PCHDTV 5500 card and installed the newest drivers from the support page. I tested (I think) the driver install by running dmesg | grep DVB and dmesg | grep 5500 and got the following:

I am not 100% sure how to test this further. I tried running dtvsignal <all numbers 1-20> and got nothing back (it displayed a little chart but it was obvious that there was no signal). The adapter(s?) used were called /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 AND /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0. If I specify the adapter of /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 it seems to go nuts and outputs

Code:

Signal 205365 > 100$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

until I manually break it.

At this point, I am completely and utterly lost, I know that the guys at mythtv say to make sure my devices work before I even touch installing mythtv, and I am trying my best to do that, but the lack of readily-available linux documentation seems to be my downfall. Can someone throw me a bone and at least point me in any direction?

Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:19 pm

flaarg

Joined: 17 Jun 2009

Posts: 1

I currently have a pchdtv5500 working in ubuntu jaunty. I also have gotten it to work in fedora 11, the latest arch, and debian testing. For all distributions it has been the same. I don't have to install the drivers provided on the support page because the ones that are provided as kernel modules work just fine. After installing the Card or OS all I do is install dvbscan, for ubuntu

Let that run for a while. If you are using a different tv source look around in the /usr/share/dvb dir for the correct file. Then I suggest installing vlc and running in your home dir

Code:

vlc channels.conf

in vlc you can change channels with the playlist. You can also use the channels.conf with mplayer but its different approach and not as elegant as the vlc. I have never tried to get mythtv up because I don't use the capture part of my cards abilities. However the newer versions of VLC, not that provided with ubuntu jaunty support pausing tv.